AlabamaRockCompany.com » Entertainment News http://www.alabamarockcompany.com Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:39:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 14th Annual Freedom Creek Festival http://www.alabamarockcompany.com/14th-annual-freedom-creek-festival http://www.alabamarockcompany.com/14th-annual-freedom-creek-festival#comments Tue, 03 May 2011 00:23:08 +0000 John http://alabamarockcompany.com/?p=2187 freedom-creek-festivalWhat: 14th Annual Freedom Creek Festival in honor of the late, great Willie King

When: Saturday, June 2nd 2011 from 11am until 10 pm

Where: 93Cookieman Place at 1438 Hwy  17 South/Wilder Circle,  Aliceville, AL 35442

The Rural Members Association is proud to announce the 14th Annual Freedom Creek Blues Festival founded by the late great Willie King and held this year in his honor, following his untimely passing in 2009. This year’s festival is to be held at a different venue than in previous years, on the outskirts of Aliceville, Alabama, at “Cookieman’s” Place on Hwy 17 South.Photobucket

This internationally acclaimed festival will take place rain or shine on Saturday June 2nd starting at 11am opening with a great traditional gospel group followed by non-stop blues. The family friendly festival attracts local and international crowds and is renowned for its down home atmosphere, great music and delicious southern food.

Lineup: international blues stars Super Chikan and Homemade Jamz will headline the show.

The festival will open with a prayer and gospel music from the Mississippi Nightingales. Blues bands will play all day, including the Alabama Blues Project Advanced Student Band, local bluesmen Clarence Davis and “Birmingham” George Conner, the Alabama Blues Women Review including Shar Baby, Rachel Edwards, B.J. Miller and Debbie Bond. Birmingham blues great Elnora Spencer will appear with her band, blues traditionalist Little G Weevil, the Missississippi Blues Boys . . . and more!

PhotobucketAdmissions is by suggested donation of $10. This is the most down-home, real deal blues festival around in the heart of the deep South where the blues was born!

For more information: www.willie-king.com or call (205) 752 6263.

The festival is made possible by generous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and Alabama State Council on the Arts.

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]]> http://www.alabamarockcompany.com/function-in-the-junction/feed 0 Bands and Artist I have worked with doing sound! http://www.alabamarockcompany.com/bands-and-artist-i-have-worked-with-doing-sound http://www.alabamarockcompany.com/bands-and-artist-i-have-worked-with-doing-sound#comments Tue, 04 Mar 2008 06:17:59 +0000 John http://alabamarockcompany.com/wordpress/?p=13 I decided to post the bands and artist i have worked with on a few sites! I wished i would have written down all the artist i have worked with in my life. Time flies  and i dig one out every once in awhile! Some gigs were front of house some Monitors and some i was  the Patch guy! Thanks for checking out my blogs! chandler, johnny, alabama, sound boardNashville Bunch from fiddle and Steel-  Earl Clark, Dave Watson, Greg Perkins, Skip Sasser, Melanie Martel, Frank Taylor, Jeff James! Mermen, Code Talkers, Course of Nature,Doug Stone, Darryl Worley, Ben Vereen, Dee Bridgewater, Angela Brown, Rolling in the hay, Willie HighTower, Big Ass Truck, Forced Entry, Jet Star 7, Distant Cousins, Left Foot Down,  Michael Warren, Patrick  Smith Band, Adelayla, Spendid Chaos,  Jupiter Coyote, Will Hoge, Snap 9 a,  Barefoot Manner, Lucy’s Attic, Soup, People Who Must, Dr Hook, Mars Electric, Charlie Mars, Atlanta Rythem Section, David Allen Coe, Drifters, Cosmo King , IraTowns, Cross Canadian Ragweed, Blue Soul, Saving Dixon, john Anderson, Mystic Window, Probus Project, Truk, Skydogs, Highly Kind, Ain’t dead Yet, S.O.B., Raley, Foggy Hollow, BallyHoo , 2 Timen Blugrass, The bridge Between,Cracker, Red Jumpsuit Apperatis, Course of Nature,Kings of Leon,Bobby Bare JR, Looney Mill, Karel Denson, Benjy Davis Project, Chris Knight, Warm In the wake, Colin Hay, Kings Of Leon, Soup, 7 Dust ,Earl Thomas  Conley, Nickel Creek, Ben Folds, Ruben Studdard, Pine Mountain Railway, UglyStick, Drive By Truckers, Willie King, Ryan Cabrera, Lynam, jeff Bates, Amy Ray ,Hank III, Regina Carter, Ray Charles , Georgia Satilites, North Mississippi Allstars ,Confederate Railroad, Bad Company, The Marvelettes ,Alabama,Vern Godsdon ,Wet Willie ,Blue Merle ,Marvelous 3 ,Ethan ,Wayne Mills Band ,38 Special,Cheap Trick  ,Mark Wills ,Andy Griggs,The Hot Club of Cowtown, Cover Girls ,Suburban Love Junkies, Train, Destiny’s Child ,Jessica Andrews, POD, David Allan Coe, Drivin’ n Cryin’, Brother Cain ,Pine Mountain Railroad ,Topper Price ,B and the Buzz ,Sean Ardoin and the ZydeKool ,Ryne Reardon and the Levy Breakers ,Nuit Blanche,Chevy6,Colonel Bruce Hampton ,Saving Dixon,Tyn Tymes,Frankie Beverly,Nancy Griffith,2 live crew,The Frey,Pat Green,Karel Denson,3 Doors Down,Wayne Newton , Brick, Blind Boys of Alabama,14 Karet Gold Band(tams old band) , Millie Jackson, Willie Clayton, Shirley Brown, Willie KIng, Butch Walker, Tab Benoit, Rose HIll Drive, Sister Hazel, Steve Azar, The Manhattens, Three Dog Night, The Verve Pipe, Vallejo, KoKo Taylor and her Blues Machine, Kansas, Jupiter Coyote, Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk, Gravy, Dierks Bentley, Bar-Kays, SOS Band, Uncle Kracker, Jeff Bates,Black eyed Susan, Jason Adean, 17th Floor, Bishop Black, Year and a Day, BuckCherry, Fly by Radio, Members Only, Derek Trucks, Hayseed Dixie, Dirty Dozen Brass band, The Avett Brothers, Beitthemeans, Three Dog Night, Cheesebrokers, Ying Yang Twins, Red Mountain Oldtime string band,Russell Gulley, Gary Jones, Limbo, Frankie Velvet and the Mighty Veltones, Clay Connor and the Criminals, Adam Guthrie, Erin Mitchell,Andrew Tyler, Rickey Carden, Jeff Treece Band, Spoonful James, Gem Avery, Noel Gourdin, Gran Bel Fisher, willie farmer,willie james,pat ross,todd johnson ,Debbie bond,Caroline shines,Sweet claudette,Josh conner, Birmingham george Conner, Jesse Daniels, Rev. LIttle,Clarence blues man davis,Mudcat, Sam Lay, Jerry Portnoy, Willie king and Liberators, Cedric Burmside and Lightenin Malcolm, Rick Russell, Pat Moss, Julian Conner,Big Joe Shelton, Gary Edmonds, Rio Grand, Locash Cowboys,Royal Jelly, Arron Tipton, AlKaline Trio, Fashion,Bayside,Short Tee,Braeside,David manning,Fourfold,Eleventy Seven,Noisegate,The neverbeltomes,   Lorrie Morgan  railroad, tracks, train  Thanks for reading Chandler

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